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Planks Poems - Poems about Planks

Rivers Jumps Our Banks
...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking - the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines and telephone wires twist netting loosening foundations. Where we once believed roots gripp......

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Categories: planks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member bridge speaks
...A tiny footstep, awakens my wooden planks Who goes there? My inner journeying voice asks......

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Categories: planks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification



Premium Member My Grandmother's Pot Plants
... Against the side fence, four long planks of wood ascended like steps supported on pillars of old red bricks serving as a stand for my Grandmother's collection of potted plants. Cuttings......

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Categories: planks, absence, grandmother, loss, memory,
Form: Free verse
Wait For Me by the Tree
...Run! The city is going up in flame; run! The whole world is getting insane; run! it is not a game; grab your bag and run, leave that place and come, meet me at the foot of the hill and guard your fa......

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Categories: planks, america, business, change, cheer
Form: Narrative
Nature’s Whisper
...I followed the beams beneath the cloud dotted expanse Dissolving into the earth like the glittering of morning sun Just beyond the weathered cedar planks, notes of crisp juniper invigorate my sens......

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Categories: planks, imagery, life, meaningful, nature,
Form: Tercet



Forgiveness Needs a Bridge
... God, the Father, had a plan all along, from creation to the virgin birth. Jesus, the Son, agreed to right the wrong that Adam and Eve started on earth. Human Jesus came down to bridge the g......

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Categories: planks, 11th grade, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member sky scraper
... I was … awake … in the crow’s nest but doing all I could to not nod off we had been through storms that day and all the previous night (such was the North Bering) so not a soul had slept ......

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Categories: planks, analogy, history, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Political Blues
...Bears and dogs and brain worms, oh my. Made me want to vote for this guy! DeSantis was always my go-to, first choice Social conservatives’ only real voice. But then Iowa had their damned little......

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Categories: planks, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MY Capt'n
...TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked All s......

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Categories: planks, appreciation, character, destiny, father
Form: Chant Royal
Red-Covered Bridge
...A ribbon of crimson, across the creek it lies, A red-covered bridge, beneath a pale blue skies. The weathered wood, a story it does tell, Of whispered secrets, and the magic of a spell. A path ......

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Categories: planks, journey, memory, old, red,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member CREATION, INNOVATION AND FIRST NATION
... It was only 120 miles from our motel in New Hampshire to our Air B & B in Bangor’s front door which means today we had a lot of time for new adventures to explore. So we took a little detour in......

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Categories: planks, creation, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Broken Bridge
... Life is a balancing game. At times through dilapidated bridge, With shattered rails and planks, We have to daringly pass, To reach our desired destination. ......

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Categories: planks, analogy, life,
Form: Verse
Muscle and Heart
...The bell rings out loudly, signals the start, must earn my keep through the pugilist’s art, my foe is a tall one, beats me in reach, to get in close my trainer sought to teach, where those long a......

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Categories: planks, career, conflict, imagery, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autobiographical Poet
...As I sit wandering about the south side of Chicago captured effortlessly by the tall dandelions watching the lightening bugs rest on sunken cattails we often lit them just before the sun se......

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Categories: planks, allah,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member No One Remembers
...This world wasn’t cut for me But I live here for awhile With a mind of a withered tree A tree with indefinite smile Come to my shadow, when it’s too hot I offer a shelter from sun and rain See......

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Categories: planks, destiny, sad,
Form: Rhyme

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